Is there any way the US and UK could have reacted to Japan's aggression in the early 1930s?
By the way does this create enough of a boom to end the depression?
By the way does this create enough of a boom to end the depression?
Is there any way the US and UK could have reacted to Japan's aggression in the early 1930s?
No.Is there any way the US and UK could have reacted to Japan's aggression in the early 1930s?
Frankly, I don't see either interfering with Japan as early as 1931. Britain (especially it's government), until Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, was most unwilling to get involved in ANY major war, remembering the horrors of the Great War. As for America, I bet Hoover would have much more to worry about. However, FDR was more than willing to punish Japan for it's ruthless warmongering. He even wanted to impose a naval blockade on Japan in response to the invasion of the rest of China, but the British government's refusal to get interfer made America's involvement much more limited. If Roosevelt had his way, Japan would be hit much more economically and begin to consider more drastic pans earlier than usual. But since the majority of Americans were still content with isolation, America would still not go to war with Japan until Pearl Harbor.Is there any way the US and UK could have reacted to Japan's aggression in the early 1930s?
By the way does this create enough of a boom to end the depression?
However, FDR was more than willing to punish Japan for it's ruthless warmongering. He even wanted to impose a naval blockade on Japan in response to the invasion of the rest of China, but the British government's refusal to get interfer made America's involvement much more limited. If Roosevelt had his way, Japan would be hit much more economically and begin to consider more drastic pans earlier than usual. But since the majority of Americans were still content with isolation, America would still not go to war with Japan until Pearl Harbor.
Well, according to this documentary, Roosevelt wanted to impose a naval blockade of Japan over the destruction in China, but the British did not want to escalate into war, so they stayed out of it. The evidence in question is 19 minutes and 16 seconds in.Britain's refusal? It was the other way round. After the HMS Ladybird and USS Panay were attacked by Japan, Chamberlain wanted a joint UK-US show of force to send a strong message to Japan for their aggression. Roosevelt refused and thought the Japanese apology for the USS Panay incident was sufficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_foreign_policy_of_the_Chamberlain_ministry#United_States